I am pure performance, and Robert Wilson is pure theater.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Because we never stop silently loving those who we once loved out loud

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

When you have so much pain, you think you will lose consciousness. If you say to yourself, ‘So what, lose consciousness,’ the pain goes away.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

You cannot understand God without understanding people

The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

Sometimes you just have to hold your nose and jump into something.

I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger.

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?